INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth,...

With introduction by John Bayley. von Pym, Barbara

INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING 'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' SHIRLEY HAZZARD 'Pym has a unique eye and ear for the small poignancies and comedies of everyday life . . . [her novels] are...

Jane and Prudence von Pym, Barbara

INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKERCatherine Oliphant is a writer and...

A range of beautifully produced products celebrating the heritage of the Virago Modern Classics list.

INTRODUCED BY CLARE CHAMBERS 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably...

"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent...

Probably Pym's most famous novel 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin von Pym, Barbara